Etymologies

Examples

Thus begins the triangle that is the novel's focus: Ed's start-and-stop relationship with Madeleine and his reluctant friendship with the obnoxious Guy, who cheerfully cadges from Ed with a sense of entitlement from having saved his life.

A sixth, scorning to work, earns nothing and gets nothing; in him survives a primitive dislike of labor not yet fully "evoluted out;" he slips through the meshes of civilization to become a "tramp," cadges his food where he can, suns his tattered rags when it is warm and shivers when it is cold, migrating with the birds and reappearing with the flowers of spring.